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With money from the state and the federal government, Paradise, Calif., may be able to rebuild and fix long-standing infrastructure problems.

Acclaimed Israeli author and peace advocate Amos Oz has died at the age of 79. His novels and other works portrayed the characters and developing national identity of Israel in its early years.

Netflix premiered its first interactive film for adults on Friday — one where you make choices on-screen to decide what happens next. It tells the story of a programmer trapped with his game.

How much of the internet is fake? From metrics and politics to people and businesses, according to Max Read's New York Magazine article, the answer is quite a lot.

NPR''s Mark Roberts reports on Rimini, Montana, the hometown of Capitol gunman Russell Weston.

NPR Music fans have chosen Dermot Kennedy as Slingshot Best New Artist of 2018. In a conversation with NPR's Ailsa Chang, Kennedy talks about the pressures of newfound success and his dedication to the craft.

The Navajo Nation is shifting its focus to mass vaccinations to fight against the pandemic's hold on Indigenous communities.

A federal judge has ruled the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act unconstitutional because it gives Native American families preferential treatment in adoptions of American Indian children.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jorge Makriniotis, the general manager of Venezuela's only remaining nationally circulated and anti-government newspaper, about publishing its final edition.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to separate families at the border in some cases. On a judge's order, a Salvadoran mother was recently reunited with her toddler after eight months.

There's another COVID-19 vaccine. This one was developed by the U.S. biotech company Novavax. It's almost 90% effective against the disease, but isn't as effective against the South African variant

It reaffirms a 10-year moratorium on new drilling off the coasts of southeastern states including Florida.

If workers from Amazon's warehouse near Birmingham vote to unionize in the next two months, they would turn a new page not only for the company but for the region.

The governor did not recommend Medicaid rate cuts for nursing homes or hospitals, pleasing those facilities. But other groups said the plan falls short in funding for people with developmental disabilities.

Personal information of applicants and enrollees, including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, names, addresses and financial information, could have been illegally accessed.

Even a partial government shutdown would leave some 800,000 government workers without pay over the holidays, although many would remain on the job.

The president is pledging "unity," but the word means different things to different people. For him, it appears to be about tone, not necessarily direction.

Members of a task force would recommend strategies for identifying, recording, and memorializing neglected and abandoned black cemeteries.

Florida's percent positivity rate of new coronavirus cases came in at over 14% Friday, almost double from Thursday's number of 7.7%. It comes as much fewer tests were returned.

Denzel Washington and Rami Malek are on the trail of a serial killer in The Little Things. Written and directed by John Lee Hancock, the film draws from a script Hancock wrote nearly 30 years ago.

Despite a slow vaccine rollout, Americans are hoping they'll be able to travel safely soon. And with relatively low airfares and flexible change policies, some are planning that next big trip.

For a look at the week in politics for state Republicans, NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Nathan Gonzales, editor and publisher of Inside Elections, and two reporters in Arizona and Ohio.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with David Fathi, director of the ACLU's National Prison Project, about President Biden's executive order not to renew Justice Department contracts with private prisons.

Human rights activists have reported a sharp increase in sexual assaults and human trafficking involving Venezuelan women and girls trying to reach Colombia since the border closed amid the pandemic.

Chicago will designate Emmett Till's home as a landmark. The 14-year-old was murdered by white men on a visit to Mississippi in 1955, and his death helped galvanize the civil rights movement.